Chibots

The meeting was called to order by Tony Stram at 1305.  He introduced the new officers:
    President – Salvador Garcia
    Vice President – Tony Stram
    Secretary – Don Kerste
    Competition Committee Chairman – Terry Jackson
    Webmaster – Royce Pipkins (graciously agreed to serve again this year)

Saturday Morning Terry Surma had passed away.

I don't have a lot of information right now but I will post it as soon as I get it.

He was a great friend, mentor and boss. More people in the world should be like him

Kris "Modelmaker" Southerland

1. Meeting opened by President Tony Stram at 1:10
1.1. 13 members, 2 officers present
2. Round the room introductions,
3. Treasurer’s report- currently we have roughly $1000 in our PayPal account
3.1. Discussion as to transfer of PayPal rights while maintaining security of treasurer’s rights
3.2. Addition of a co-signer to maintain security of funds
3.3. Vote taken for new setup of PayPal account; passed unanimously
4. Recap of last month’s Chibotica competition
4.1. Review of photos of the event (All the photos are available on the Chibots website)
4.2. Don’s overview on iHobby

Its that time again, time for the November meeting!

Sunday 11/8 Topic: BEAM Line Follower RBDO

Agenda:

1PM  Meeting Call to Order

Chibots Paypal Account Review

Reflections on iHobby- results, pictures

Misc. Club Business

Presentation 1: BRAT robot by Eric Gregori (iHobby grand prize)

Presentation 2: BEAM Line Follower RBDO by Salvador Garcia

*note: a limited number of line follower kits will be available for those of you that did not reserve one in advance

Show/Tell/Ask

This is the TableTopBot which I used to write the manual.

 The RobotVisionToolkit is a free tool that allows you to easily experiment with Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, TCP/IP networking, Joystick support and other advanced features in your next robot.

The RobotVisionToolkit uses a language called RobotSee to tie all these advanced features together.  RobotSee is a basic like language specifically designed for people currently using the Basic Stamp, or other BASIC like languages.

The RobotVisionToolkit includes a text editor, and graphic debugger.  It works with almost any web camera. 

I've uploaded a few pictures Chibotica 2009. Check them out here: http://chibots.org/?q=image/tid/33

If you are a member and have some pics to upload you can do that here: http://chibots.org/?q=node/add/image

1. Meeting called to order at 1:12 Pm
a. Attendance of 11 with all three officers-
i. Tony Stram, President
ii. Scott Mueller, Vice President
iii. Will Meitzler, Secretary
iv. Salvador Garcia, Assistant to President
2. Tony reminds all about iHobby Expo- October 22-25
3. Treasury report- current total- $1012
a. Dues count accurate?
4. iHobby business run by Don
a. Call for all attendants to register for iHobby and robot competitor
b. Don presents plans to print certificates as more generous awards (everyone gets a certificate for bringing a robot)

Index Photo: 

At the time of this writing, this robot is not completely assembled. It's more than this, though:

Lego NXT sumo robot.